Bento
A modularized collection of Packer definitions for building machine images. A good place to start with Packer.
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Chef
Configuration management tool which uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration recipes. Supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and AIX as first-class citizens for management.
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ConDep
ConDep is a open source infrastructure configuration and deployment DSL (Domain Specific Language) specifically targeted to (but not limited to) the Windows Server platform. If your familiar with tools like Chef and Puppet, ConDep does very much the same, but with native support for Windows.
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FastForward
Flexible operating-system event and metric forwarding agent. Receives input and forwards output using plugins.
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Instrumental
Instrumental is a real-time, high-scale application and server monitoring tool with intelligent alerts, a powerful query language, and free development accounts.
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Orc
A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters
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Puppet
Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.
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SaltStack
Salt is a powerful and different approach to infrastructure management, by focusing on high speed communications between large number of systems, and can perform orchestration, remote code execution and much more.
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SignalFx
SignalFx is an advanced monitoring and alerting solution for modern infrastructure. With SignalFx, development and operations teams monitor, analyze, and alert in real-time on any time series data.
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Soloist
Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.
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Vagrant Cachier
A Vagrant plugin that helps you reduce the amount of coffee you drink while waiting for boxes to be provisioned by sharing a common package cache among similiar VM instances.
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Vagrant
Vagrant is a cross platform tool to create, boot, configure and destroy development environments. It provides a simple configuration-based approach to take a base image, boot it up, provision it (using any other provisioners), SSH, port forward, and much more. It automates the process of booting up and configuring virtual machines. It supports various providers like VirtualBox, VMWare, AWS, LXC, etc.
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Veewee
veewee is a great tool for building Virtual Machine images (aka base boxes). It automates most of the steps and allows you to easily create readymade images for VirtualBox/Vagrant, VMWare Fusion, KVM and Parallels. No longer need to shy away from building custom VM images!
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